This Annotated Guide aims at helping people interested in creating a nonprofit organization in France and the United Kingdom. This guide provides a list of websites offering help, advice, and methodology to enter the wide sector of the European nonprofit sector.

How to set up a nonprofit organization in France?
In France, a nonprofit organization is called "a 1901 Law Association," in reference to the 1901 Law, which launched the idea of ‘nonprofit’.

http://www.guidon.asso.fr/loi1901.htm
Check the law itself and the many articles it includes.

http://www.loi1901.com/page/juriserve/index.html
This website describes the components of a nonprofit organization: the members, the board, the ‘administrative council’, the general assembly, and the ‘inner rules’. At this site, you will also find explanations concerning the aforementioned entities and the way they function.

http://www.gaes.org/loi1901.htm
The Guide Annuaire de l’Economie Sociale presents a general guide to the nonprofit sector. www.gaes.org/textes.htm Provides a model from which one can get inspiration in writing the texts of the nonprofit organization.

http://www.gaes.org/form.htm
Offers a well-explained guide of the formalities necessary for the creation of an association before and after its official declaration and the establishment of its status.

http://www.gaes.org/fisc.htm
Gives information concerning the fiscal laws of the nonprofit sector and the role it plays in society. This is meant to help future new managers be more efficient, and adapt their management to the needs of the 21st Century. At the moment in France, there are 60,000 new associations per annum and a total of 1,300,000 salaried people for about 120,000 associations.

http://www.finances.gouv.fr/association/loi1901.htm
Website provided by the French Government - more precisely the “Ministere des Finances”, which gives some very useful documentation concerning the fiscal laws, which apply to the “Associations Loi 1901”.

http://www.gaes.org/transpa.htm
Website providing very clear information concerning the fiscal rules to follow when spending the money a nonprofit raises. The “Becquet Law” from July 7, 1991 is articulated on three main points meeting the needs of a certain code of deontology. This basically is the equivalent of the registration with the IRS.

http://www.gaes.org/comm.htm
This site helps people acquire a better strategy of development and become more efficient as far as communication is concerned. It will help the association differentiate itself from the others and get a good image, and thus widen its audience of supporters, be the support financial or moral.

www.wpostal.com/cgi-bin/trackclick.pl?log=all99
This site shows how much ‘booming’ the nonprofit sector is in France and how numerous these organizations are, and how interested they are in using the new technology.

How to set up a nonprofit organization in the United Kingdom?
A nonprofit organization in the UK is referred to as a charity. The first very helpful website to visit is:

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dave/TOC_H/charities/H
This section of the aforementioned website is rich in helpful practical and technical advice for the creation of a charity if one has no previous experience in the nonprofit sector.

http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk
The French government provides a helpful website as far as the law requirements are concerned

http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/main/about/does/vsnto.html
This site offers information concerning the opportunities of getting training offered to people wanting to create a charity. A ‘training program’ exists through the Voluntary Sector National Training Organization.

http://www.scvo.org.uk/
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organizations

http://www.nicva.org/links.html
The Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action

http://www.charitynet.org
This site provides a legislation monitoring service for charities, voluntary organizations and their advisers

http://www.acf.org.uk/
As far as finances and fundraising are concerned, the Association of Charitable Foundations provides us with a website presenting the main guidelines to the funding sources for voluntary organizations.

http://www.nlcb.org.uk/index.html
Charities in the UK can get funds from the National Lottery. Through the National Lottery Charities Board, a charity should receive 4.7% from every dollar spent on the lottery.

http://www.bcalcommunities.org/servlet/lc_ProcServ
The Local Communities Network, Incorporation is a community organization that supports the online presence of over a hundred nonprofit organizations. It provides free services and thus helps businesses create websites.

Guide By Marie Cussac